Nadiia Kichenok

Australian Open 2020: Indian challenge ends with Rohan Bopanna-Nadiia Kichenok pair's meek exit in mixed doubles

The Indian challenge at the Australian Open ended after Rohan Bopanna and his Ukrainian partner Nadiia Kichenok were knocked out in straight sets in the quarter-final of the mixed doubles event in Melbourne on Thursday.

Australian Open 2020: Leander Paes bids final goodbye to tournament after defeat in mixed doubles second round

Leander Paes' last Australian Open outing came to and end after he and partner Jelena Ostapenko were knocked out of the mixed doubles competition, going down in straight sets to Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Australian Open 2020: Leander Paes, Jelena Ostapenko reach mixed doubles second round with hard fought win

Paes and Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, erased a one-set deficit to edge out local wild cards entrants Storm Sanders and Marc Polmans 6-7(4), 6-3, 10-6 in the opening round which lasted one hour and 27 minutes.

Australian Open 2020: Divij Sharan loses second-round men's doubles match; Rohan Bopanna sole Indian left in the fray

With Sharan's loss, India's campaign in the men's doubles ended as Rohan Bopanna had made a first-round exit on Wednesday

Sania Mirza interview: 'I proved that I wasn’t too rusty,' Indian ace optimistic despite retiring from Australian Open through injury

The pair of Mirza and Kichenok were never really in the game as the Indian struggled with her injury right from the beginning of the match

Australian Open 2020: Sania Mirza retires mid-way into women's doubles first round clash due to calf injury

Sania Mirza's first Grand Slam outing after maternity leave ended with an early exit as the Indian ace retired mid-way into her women's doubles first-round match due to a calf injury

Australian Open 2020: Sania Mirza back to 'special' place where it all started, with new challenge

Sania Mirza had been away from action for two years with a knee injury and then birth of son in 2018. She returned with win in Hobart and has another "first" for an Indian at Australian Open.

Australian Open 2020: India's Prajnesh Gunneswaran crashes out after going down fighting to Japanese wildcard Tatsuma Ito

World no.122 Prajnesh, who entered the main draw as a lucky loser in the qualifiers, lost in straight sets 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 against Japanese wild card Tatsuma Ito, ranked 22 places below the Indian, in a rescheduled first round tie that lasted for two hours and one minute.

Hobart International 2020: 'My son is my inspiration to be here', says Sania Mirza after victorious return from two-year break

Mirza, who won six Grand Slam doubles titles, took a break from the game after the China Open in October 2017 and gave birth to her son a year later.

'Motivation for all of us': Twitterati salute Sania Mirza for her Hobart International title win on comeback

Sania Mirza, with her partner Nadiia Kichenok, won the doubles title at Hobart International. Her first tournament since the birth of son Izhaan.